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# A very popular set of novels were based on such a plan.
Our hero spends the time not being killed to learn how not to be killed.
The inevitable chase to the scenario spans several books.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reluctant_King
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 6:52, archived)
# oh christ i have the brain of a pop novelist.
halp!
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 6:54, archived)
# Another author (science fiction) has it fair to...
...kill politicians for "political" reasons, only.

Funny thing is, it also uses Texas as a thematic element.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 6:57, archived)
# life in the public eye should be permitted only if the public eye is not bothered.
become a bothersome hair or prodding stick and expect to be removed.

who are these authors? i may want to read some of this guff (doubtful, but possible. not tim lahaye, i hope).
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 7:07, archived)
# Novel ref'ed
www.gutenberg.org/etext/20121

Link to others by him
www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p#a8301

DeCamp's in most any used book stall.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 7:14, archived)
# urgh, that piper guy tripped a memory.
yep, that's him - the fuzzy books, which used to make me angry as a child. just the sight of the covers at a book sale enraged me.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 7:22, archived)
# SciFi nuts will be lighting torches.
But I agree, they were very badly done.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 7:24, archived)
# just the covers made me ill. i never tried to read one.
scifi nuts will shut the fuck up and fetch my slippers.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Thu 4 Sep 2008, 7:40, archived)